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Conversations with pioneering animators and comics artists

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 By Carol Lay,Words And Pictures guest 23rd Oct '07

 

"Persistance Of Kat Klocks" by Carol Lay

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Matt Bors: Life Begins At Incorporation

Airs at: Thu, 07/11/2013 at 12:00am
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Pulitzer finalist and Herblock Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Matt Bors returns to the KBOO airwaves to introduce his very first book collection.  With a foreword by legendary Oregonian cartoonist Jack Ohman and editing assist by Bitch Magazine's Sarah Mirk, Life Begins... Read more

Words and Pictures on 06/13/13

Airs at: Thu, 06/13/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman, who spent nearly three decades at The Oregonian and was recently short-listed for the Pulitzer prize, left Portland for Sacramento at the end of 2012.  While loading up the moving van, Jack made a valedictory appearance at the Oregon Histori... Read more

Words and Pictures on 05/09/13

Airs at: Thu, 05/09/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Renowned Oregon Governor Tom McCall would have turned 100 years old this year.  To commemorate this larger-than-life figure, Know Your City (formerly the Dill Pickle Club) commissioned a comic book about McCall's controversial decision to fund the Vortex I rock festival in ... Read more

Tom McCall Centennial

Airs at: Thu, 05/09/2013 at 12:00am
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Renowned Oregon Governor Tom McCall would have turned 100 years old this year.  To commemorate this larger-than-life figure, Know Your City (formerly the Dill Pickle Club) commissioned a comic book about McCall's controversial decision to fund the Vortex I rock festival in... Read more

Words and Pictures on 04/11/13

Airs at: Thu, 04/11/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Ben Katchor and the Architecture of Comics

Airs at: Thu, 04/11/2013 at 12:00am
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Ben Katchor, the first cartoonist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship grant, is also a writer, teacher, and performer of TED Talk recitations.  His familiar-seeming yet skewed urban vignettes, such as Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer and The Cardboard Valise, have been ... Read more

Words and Pictures on 03/14/13

Airs at: Thu, 03/14/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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In Portland, a tiny band of cartoonists believed there should be a platform for artists to connect with their communities; a concept not addressed at the traditional conventions. 10 years ago, the first Stumptown Comics Fest broke the mold and placed Portland at the heart o... Read more

Words and Pictures on 02/14/13

Airs at: Thu, 02/14/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Words and Pictures on 01/24/13

Airs at: Thu, 01/24/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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John McAfee (yes, that John McAfee) is the guest on this special edition of Words and Pictures, along with local animator Chad Essley, who's been maintaining the WhoIsMcAfee.com blog and is now working on the graphic memoir The Hinterland. Along with discussions of The Hint... Read more

The Hinterland: Chad Essley and John McAfee

Airs at: Thu, 01/24/2013 at 12:00am
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John McAfee (yes, that John McAfee) is the guest on this special edition of Words and Pictures, along with local animator Chad Essley, who's been maintaining the WhoIsMcAfee.com blog and is now working on the graphic memoir The Hinterland. Along with discussions of The Hint... Read more

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